Microsoft this week turned the spotlight on the "Fall Creators Update" edition of Windows 10 Internet of Things (IoT), previously known as Windows Embedded.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 03, 2017
Microsoft shared some broad plans for its forthcoming Office 2019 productivity suite, as well as Exchange Server 2019, Skype for Business Server 2019 and SharePoint Server 2019, in a Web presentation this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 02, 2017
Despite recording significant increases in their latest earnings reports, neither Microsoft nor Google managed to put a significant dent in Amazon's lead in the cloud infrastructure services market.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 01, 2017
A newly refocused Cloud Solution Provider program is giving partners hope for better relationships with Microsoft field reps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 30, 2017
Microsoft's new fiscal year got off to a much better start than expected, with the company reporting $24.5 billion in revenues for its first FY18 quarter, more than $1 billion higher than analysts had forecast.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 26, 2017
Google is partnering with Cisco on a hybrid cloud effort that will enable workloads to run on Cisco's UCS hyperconverged infrastructure hardware and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 25, 2017
Microsoft this week unveiled new container management services for its Azure cloud, including those aimed at the Kubernetes open source container orchestration solution.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 24, 2017
A strategic partnership announced Monday between Microsoft and Cray will bring the latter's supercomputing capabilities to the Azure public cloud.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 23, 2017
Microsoft has opened the door for enterprises and service providers to run Azure Stack at much greater scale.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 23, 2017
Version 1709 of Windows Server 2016 became generally available on Tuesday, marking the operating system's first "semiannual channel" release for businesses that want to receive updates from Microsoft at a faster clip.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 18, 2017
When it rolled out the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update earlier this week, Microsoft gave much of the limelight to its support for mixed reality headsets and various user interface improvements. However, Microsoft's latest operating system update offers a vast array of other practical features.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 18, 2017
Microsoft on Tuesday took the wraps off the new Surface Book 2, in addition to announcing the general availability of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (previously code-named "Redstone 3").
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 17, 2017
Security software provider Symantec Corp. is using Microsoft's Azure infrastructure to support its Norton line of consumer security products.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 17, 2017
The years-long dispute over whether Microsoft must submit to government requests for data stored in an offshore datacenter is going to the U.S. Supreme Court.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 16, 2017
Microsoft's privacy features in the Home and Pro editions of the Windows 10 "Anniversary Update" and the "Creators Update" were found to violate privacy laws set forth by the the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA).
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 13, 2017